S S symmetry Review Security and Accuracy of Fingerprint-Based Biometrics: A Review Wencheng Yang 1,* , Song Wang 2 , Jiankun Hu 3, Guanglou Zheng 1 and Craig Valli 1 1 Security Research Institute, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA 6207, Australia;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +61-8-6304-5210 Received: 2 December 2018; Accepted: 23 January 2019; Published: 28 January 2019 Abstract: Biometric systems are increasingly replacing traditional password- and token-based authentication systems. Security and recognition accuracy are the two most important aspects to consider in designing a biometric system. In this paper, a comprehensive review is presented to shed light on the latest developments in the study of fingerprint-based biometrics covering these two aspects with a view to improving system security and recognition accuracy. Based on a thorough analysis and discussion, limitations of existing research work are outlined and suggestions for future work are provided. It is shown in the paper that researchers continue to face challenges in tackling the two most critical attacks to biometric systems, namely, attacks to the user interface and template databases. How to design proper countermeasures to thwart these attacks, thereby providing strong security and yet at the same time maintaining high recognition accuracy, is a hot research topic currently, as well as in the foreseeable future.